The Chief Executive Officer of the Ghana Investment Promotion Centre (GIPC), Simon Madjie, has stated that the Centre is actively working to identify investment potentials across all 261 districts in the country.
According to him, this initiative aims to promote targeted investments and highlight regional-level opportunities for Ghanaians.
Speaking at the launch of the GIPC’s Investment Opportunities Mapping Project (IOMP) on July 10, 2025, Madjie emphasised that many viable investment opportunities across Ghana remain untapped due to a lack of visibility.
“The Investment Opportunity Mapping Project at GIPC is an undertaking to ensure that we collect and showcase all the investment opportunities across the country’s 261 districts. We will also begin a series of activities to promote the regions and the districts,” he said.
Launched under the theme "Unlocking Regional Investment Potential in Ghana for Economic Growth and Prosperity," the IOMP is designed to align closely with Ghana’s national development priorities and attract investments that drive job creation, industrialisation, and infrastructure development.
According to Madjie, the initiative also supports the Ghana Diplomatic Investment Drive (GDID) by equipping Ghana’s foreign missions and ambassadors with clearly identified, well-packaged investment opportunities from across the country.
“It will help us generate opportunities that can be shared with our missions through the GDID, making them available to all our ambassadors around the world. This work is part of building a proper national investment framework that showcases Ghana’s full investment potential and attracts people from across the globe to engage with us and our businesses,” he explained.
Madjie further noted that there are numerous opportunities in the regions that have yet to be properly identified and promoted, and he expressed optimism that once these are brought to light, regional economies will attract more investment.
He also announced that GIPC will develop a mobile application that will serve as a central platform listing all investment opportunities in Ghana and making them easily accessible to both local and international investors.
“The overall objective is to have a single, centralised source where anyone interested in investing in Ghana can access reliable, up-to-date information. Every developed country has a go-to platform for such opportunities, and Ghana must have one too. There are priority sectors, but there are also opportunities in districts that often go unnoticed unless we go out, gather the data, and market them effectively,” he said.
“We want Ghana’s investment strategy to be data-driven, informed, and accessible,” he concluded.
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